An engineering firm with a difference:
We don’t do design.
But we do all the things design firms don’t.
We focus on your information, making it meaningful and reliable. We focus on your decisions, helping you manage uncertainty and achieve positive outcomes. And we focus on your people, helping you on-site to engage employees and stakeholders while implementing initiatives that bring you sustainable infrastructure.
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Decision Support
We support your decisions with rigorous frameworks and probability analysis. We inform your decisions with research, predictive analytics, and simulation.
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Asset Management
Infrastructure Asset Management is about people. We can help you get your organization on the path to sustainable infrastructure.
Our Value Chain
Our value chain is uniquely designed to take you from the raw data about your organization all the way through processed information to informed decisions and well-designed policy. Finally, we bring reliability and sustainability to your infrastructure by facilitating implementations of reliability-centred maintenance and infrastructure asset management. Each link in this value chain supports the subsequent links, providing you the greatest value.
Your service to your people is built on robust data, properly analysed and composed into actionable information.
This information defines the uncertainty in your policy alternatives, and helps you make the best decision with the available information.
Your decisions define the nature of your organization, and its effectiveness and sustainability when serving your people.
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Complexity
We manage the complexity in your information with advanced analytic techniques and simulations.
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Uncertainty
We manage the uncertainty in your decisions using Decision Analysis and decision-making processes.
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Sustainability
We manage the sustainability of your infrastructure with Infrastructure Asset Management and Reliability-centred Maintenance.
Unravel Complexity
with Predictive Analytics and Dynamic Modelling
Find the Best Policy
Dynamic models show you the importance of the feedbacks, time delays, and interactions in your organization and its environment. How do your policies interact? Which is most effective?
Uncover Actionable Information
Leverage all your data using “big data” machine-learning and predictive analytic techniques. Numbers aren’t enough—discover the relationships in your data and leverage them for more effective business decisions.
Forecast Dynamically
Truly dynamic models of input costs, supply, demand, and price will capture the ups and downs of your industry or community. Don’t just extend existing trends: see potential tipping points in your important variables before they happen.
Be Cutting Edge
These techniques are widely applicable and used by large banks, provincial health care agencies, NGOs, manufacturing firms, and other avant-garde organizations. We make these methods available to every organization, municipality, and First Nation in Western Canada and beyond.
Decide with Confidence
with Decision Analysis and Decision-Making Processes
Use Rigorous Decision Making
We’ll facilitate your use of a rigorous decision-making framework to support your management expertise. These frameworks are designed to minimize the effects of cognitive biases and heuristics that every human uses when making decisions—and which can lead to suboptimal outcomes.
Communicate Clearly with Stakeholders
When you use a structured decision-making process, you get a documented trail of information and alternatives. This can be used to easily craft clear, understandable communication pieces that describe your decision to stakeholders and facilitate consensus-building.
See Every "what if" at the Same Time
Apply Decision Analysis techniques to see every “what if” scenario at the same time. Use risk profiles and decision trees to compare your alternatives. You’ll never want to use conventional scenario/sensitivity analyses again.
Be Confident
When you have examined every what-if scenario, and used a rigorous decision framework, you’re fully informed and ready to make your decision with confidence. You won’t second-guess yourself down the road, and its easy to demonstrate accountability with a documented process.
Be Sustainable
with Infrastructure Asset Management and Reliability-centred Maintenance
Stop doing AM off the Side of your Desk
Done the NAMS training? Still trying to implement asset management off the side of your desk? We can help you implement your AM program, provide on-site coaching, and get it rolling while you get up to speed.
Change your Culture
Switching from a reactive to a proactive maintenance culture or starting an asset management program requires buy-in from all levels to be successful. Put our experience and expertise in leadership and change management to work in your community or organization.
Increase Reliability
Reactive maintenance is insidious and can be a heavy burden on profit margin or your tax base. Implementing RCM or RCM-lite can improve your uptime and your bottom line. Get one of Saskatchewan’s proven leaders in Reliability helping your organization or municipality.
We've Been There
Our co-founder reduced the reactive maintenance ratio at Saskatchewan’s largest water treatment plant from 88% to 12% in two years, by implementing infrastructure asset management and RCM. It can be done!
Our Core Values
We Value People
People are at the heart of problem-solving. We understand that to model an organization, you need to model how people behave. To make a good decision, you need to understand people’s points of view. To manage an organization’s assets proactively and sustainably, you need to motivate people. People are at the core of what we do, and how we do it. And they’re at the core of why we do it: prosperity for our community.
We take a Holistic View
When you take a holistic view, you see the whole picture. Whether it’s system dynamic models of your organization, decision analysis, or asset management, all these techniques look at component pieces of your organization, but more importantly, how they interact as a whole. We help you see the forest for the trees, take on a holistic view, realize efficiency, and promote prosperity for our community.
We Foster Education
Education is the foundation of modern society, and as much as we aim to help you overcome challenges, we also aim to bring knowledge transfer to you and your staff. By transferring expertise to our clients, they can continue to realize greater efficiency, which leads to prosperity for our community.
We Value Communication
If people are at the heart of problem solving, then so is communication. Whether we’re communicating with you, our client, or helping you to communicate decisions and initiatives to your stakeholders, we know that communication is a cornerstone of prosperity for our community.
Now is the time
Use all your information. Make quality decisions. Manage your infrastructure sustainably.